THE CONGRESS: Kamehameha's Dream

When King Kamehameha III proposed
statehood for Hawaii a century ago, he expected the U.S. to agree in
about as much time as it takes to say King Kamehameha III. If alive, he
would still be waitingand partly because Hawaiian opinion itself is
by no means unanimous for statehood. Some influential white residents,
resenting the increasingly important part played by Japanese and
Chinese in the island's business and political life, point to a postwar
Caucasian exodus and say Hawaii would become an "Oriental state."
Others argue that Hawaii should not be a state so long as Harry
Bridges' Red-led longshoremen...